Sorting device for laundry work



A. GUDMUNDSEN ET AL SORTING DEVICE FOR LAUNDRY WORK Nov. 3 1925- Filed May 5 1924.

Patented Nov. 3, 1925.

UNITEVD'Y'STVATESV" PATENT O F-ice.

' nusrrn ennmnivnsnn Ann IRAN-K E, DOLE, or 'sALr LAKE oI'rY, UTAH.

' sonrine DEVICE FOR LAUNDRY WORK;

Application filed May 5,

[0 (M whom it may concern:

-Be it'known'that we, AUSTIN GUDMUND- SEN and FRANK E. DOLE, citizens of the United States,residing at Salt Lake'City, in the county of Salt Lake and State of Utah, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sorting Devices for Laundry l/Vork, of which the following is a specification. i a a Y Our invention relates to sorting devices used in laundry work and has for its object to provide a new, economical and con veniently operated pin which is detachably fastened in articles of clothing for marking said articles while-they are being washed in "laundries. p v

A further ohject is to provide a locking laundry pinfrom which articlesmay be suspended,v and from which said articles may be detached by a simple lateral movement of either the articles or the pins while the articles or pins are bunched,- and to sort 'and assemble said pins for replacement in their respective-holders'or cases whereby articles of laundry may be accurately sorted, thereby saving the time and efl'ort usually expended in removing the-pins and'placing them individually in their respective cases.- r I 7 These objects we accomplish with the device illustrated in-the accompanylng drawingsin which'similar letters 'ofreference indicate like parts throughoutqthe several views, and as described inthe specification forming a part of this application andpoint- "ed out in the appended claims, 7

' In the drawings in which we'have shown the best mode of applying the invention to practical and'beneficial use, Figure 1 is aside elevation'of the sorting'device. Figure 2 is a side elevation of the opposite side of the sorting device with some of the pins shown thereon and unlocked, and with one pin locked, and before an article of clothing. which is held by the locked" pin has been released. Figure 3 is an end elevationofthe sorting device and a locked pin shown thereon. Figure his a sideelevation of the op posite side of thepin "from thatshown in" Figure 3. Figure 5 is aside elevationof the pin showing it-unlocked. Figure is an 1924. Serial No. 711,032. I

elevation of hook portion of the pin.

edge view of the'pin case. Figure is aside In using laundry marking pins it is de- I si'rable that the pins may be sorted and assembled when not in use. in their respective and propercases. NVe provide an absolutely accurate means of sorting, checking and unpinning the articles, thereby saving the time usually expended in removing the individual pins and proving and checking them, and

the operation of returning them to their respective cases, and checking against'missupporting rod on whichthepin andi-cloth- 1 ing thereon are suspended. A guide case C is provided by bending portions of saidiplate A to forma rectangular case. ,The sides of said guide case are spaced aparttolallow the parallel portion 1 of .thehookto. slide freely, insaid case. In the outer-edge of said gulde case O a recess D is-cut. On the opposite edge of said case A a' hook. point, case E isprovided by bending'otherportions of said plateA to TOI'IILtlIG-SlClQS' and ends, as shown'at E; in Figures 4 and 5, ,'and said case E is extended fromthe body i'of'said plate A as an. integral wing portion to allow 1 the hook point to .be, engaged ."when T the I clothing "is suspended thereon. =-The*hook portion of our device is a wire, bent in the .form of the letter Sv with portions parallel asatl, and one part tapered and ground to a point, as at 3, which is adapted-to en-.

form a'. catch 2 which engages in said recess gage in the case E. The free end-ofthe wire"? is bent away from the parallel portion to 1 D of the guide'case to lock the pin. .Key

ways. G are 'cut in the edges of said plate A, and a proving case H 18 provided having key lugs extending toward the central opening B'of the plate A. The proving case, 'consistsofa piece of-tubin'ge adapted to U slide over. the free end; of thesupporting rods, and a guide strip 5 which are fastened to each other and spaced apartin parallel position by the base 16, which hasacentral opening in alinementv with the interior of saidtube 4. Y A rib 6 is provided longitudinally on the side of said guide strip adjacent the tube 4, against which the pins are to be moved to release the catch 2 and allow the hook to drop to the position shown in Figure 5. Transverse slits 7 are cut in the .upper'edge of said guide strip 5 to indicate to the operator when all pins belonging to that bunch of pins are in place onsaid tube 4. A'testing clip ii is pivoted on the outer face of said guide strip 5, and a portion of said clip is bentto form a rectangular pin proving or testing members having a top and sides with open bottom, as shown in Figure. 3. Key ribs are secured on the inner faces of the top and one side, spaced respectively to lit the key ways G of the said plate A, and the position of the said key ribs-and key Ways are tobe changed to the diiferent devices used, as are the keys and tumblers of a lock,in order that only pins having identical key Ways may be passed over the tube i and pass the key ribs of one ,device. The key ribs 10 of all the other testing clips F are positioned differently and in conformity to the changed position of the key ways of other. plates. A rib or lug ii is alsovextended from the top portion of said testing clip F which engages the inner face of said guide strip 5 and thereby prevent any play of said testing clip F.

The operation of our device is as fol- ,"lows': e aThe hook portlon of the device 1S1DClG- pendently constructed, as shown in Figure 7, and its shank portions 1 are slipped into the guide case C by a. slight flexing of the catch portion 2; the said shank is made of a spring metal to allow the bending required.

r The flat shape given to the shank 1 or parallel portions when in the guide case C will position the point of the hook in alinemcnt with the'case E, and when the cats-11 2 is below'and free of the recess Dv the hook point Wlll be spaced far enough from the said" case E. to allow articles of clothing to p be impaled'on or engaged with said hook 3.

The shank 1, with its integralhook *3, is-

thenmoved longitudinally toward the said book will be engagcdiin the case E and the clothing held on the hook. After the clothplate and the catch 2 engaged in the recess D, and when so (engaged the pomt of'the ing has been laundered, the tubes 4: with the attached guide plate 5 and base 6 are suspended from the supporting rods; then, by slipping the pins over the free end of said rod and tube, along the said rod and tube 4 through the opening B of each plate A and the plate through thetesting clip F, wl1i'ch may be done only when the key ribs 10 fit the key ways 11 in the plates A the pins will be sorted. When all of the artioles of one bunch of laundry are thus sus'p'e'nded'on one red and tube, the clothing will be bunched andthe devices will be ing, each of the devices will be partially r0 tated on the sup porting rod and the catches 2 will all be brought into contact with the rib 6 on the guide plate 5, whereby the catches 2 will be r'eleased'and pushed from the recessesl), and the hooks 3 will he slid downwardly and the clothing released from the hooks. The pins may then be quickly and easily removed from the supporting rod by turning the testing clip F upwardly on its pivot, asshown in dotted lines in Figure l, which leaves the pins free for removal from the tube a for engagement with other articles to be laundered, and the tubes l with their attachments and carryingthe pins ma be removed, from said su ortin rods and tiled in cases kept for that purpose.

Having thus described our invention, we

desire to secure 'by Letters Patent and claim V l. A laundry pin comprising a plate having-a hole centrally therein and key ways in its edges; a guide case on one facethereof having a recess in its edge; a pin slidable in said case with one portion adapted for operation through said recess to lock and unlock another portion shaped'as a point; a base having atu'be secured thereon on which said plate is slidable; a guide strip. secured" on said base parallel with said tube; a longitudinal rib on said guide strip against which said pin may be moved to unlock; it; a testin clip pivoted on said guidestriphaving key ribson its inner face over which said recesses in said plate may-be moved.

2. A laundry pin comprising a plate havinganopening centrally therein with a portion forming a recessed guide case integral ,with; one edge; and key-vways in -its;other edges; a point case on ,theopposite edge; a pin slidable in said guide case with its point bent to engage in said point case; a guide strip having a longitudinal rib; thereon with one portion curved to engage in the recess in said guide case; a base having a tube secured thereon 5-. a guide strip secured on said basev having a longitudlnal rib adapted to unlocksaid pin and allow it to' tended from one face thereof; a' testing clip pivoted on said guide stripand having key ribs extended therefrom; "over; which j the notches in said plate may be passed.

4. A sorting laundry pin comprising a through said notches whenthe said plates plate having notches in its edges; 21 pin opare moved through said clip.

eratively connected with said plate; a test- In testimony whereof We have affixed 1 10' ing clip conforming on its interior with the Signatures- 6 shape of said plates outer edges; and key ribs inwardly extended on said testing clip, i AUSTIN GUDMUNDSEN. and so positioned that they will pass FRANK E. DOLE. 

